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Chapter 38: Guruprasad Garden, 1963

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This is the highest state of love. All other actions, good or bad, are binding. The actions of one who has surrendered 100 percent to a Perfect Master, or the Avatar, have no I thought. In true surrender, there is no thought of Why? and Wherefore? Once your surrender is complete, all actions done by you are not yours. You have to renounce nothing but your own self. One has ultimately to go beyond the mind, because Reality is beyond it.
How can you go beyond the mind? The only solution is love. This comes only with the grace of the Perfect Master. Once the I thought goes, nothing remains. But this is very difficult. One unconsciously asserts one's ego when one says, "I am sick, I am hungry," et cetera. This is one's natural ego; however, it is egoless I. The ego still remains when one asserts, "I am a doctor, I am rich, I am serving the poor," et cetera. This ego creates hunger [for pride], jealousy and greed.
The status of love is beyond the reach of the mind. Only those who carry their lives on their sleeves can reach its threshold. In perfect love, there is perfect obedience. Very few have this courage. Even Arjuna, who loved Krishna dearly, did not obey him when he was ordered to fight in the battle of Mahabharat against his own relatives. Krishna, as a last resort, had to reveal to Arjuna his Virat Swarup . Obedience on the part of Arjuna after this experience was of no value. Obedience must be unquestioning. Only then is it of the highest order. But this is impossible.
Baba concluded by saying, "I am the only One who loves everyone. Not one of you present loves me as I should be loved."
Baba asked Roda Mistry if she had slept well. She said she had not.
Baba remarked, "If you did not sleep it was good, for you can then remember me all the more."
While Madhusudan sang a song, Baba asked Freny Dadachanji the same thing. She replied that she, too, had not slept.
Baba inquired, "But why didn't you sleep? Tell the truth. I also did not sleep, but what was your reason? Did you overeat? Were you afraid?" With a twinkle in his eye he told her, "Don't mind, and don't worry. Take my name if you cannot get to sleep. Eruch did not have a wink of sleep for sixteen days once. Bhau also does not sleep. Do not worry about your health. Leave everything to me."
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